Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.
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Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.
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Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.
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But I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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I come to the categorical conclusion that precisely at this moment we must give battle to the Black Hundred clergy in the most decisive and merciless manner and crush its resistance with such brutality that it will not forget it for decades to come. The greater the number of representatives of the reactionary clergy and reactionary bourgeoisie we succeed in executing for this reason, the better.
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A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.
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Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
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Sometimes - history needs a push.
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The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.
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It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.
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People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people.
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Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.
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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.
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Crime is a product of social excess.
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When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.
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In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority.
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Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
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For any truth, if “overdone” (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its actual applicability, can be reduced to an absurdity, and is even bound to become an absurdity under these conditions.
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Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.